The first round of the presidential election in Ukraine took place on Sunday. The Ukraine Information Agency reports the following figures with 98.99% of votes counted:

First round
Viktor Yanukovich 35.39%
Yulia Timoshenko 25.01%
Sergiy Tigipko 13.01%
Arseniy Yatsenyuk 6.96%
Viktor Yushchenko 5.48%
Petro Symonenko 3.55%
Volodymyr Litvin 2.34%
Oleg Tyangnybok 1.43%

Ten candidates received less than 1.4%.

The second round will take place on 7 February. Sunday’s result is not too far removed from the opinion polls that were presented before the holiday break. If so, then they also showed that Yanukovich would beat Timoshenko at the second ballot. Given the anti-Yanukovich camp is very divided, this would would still seem to be the most likely scenario.